Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.


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Watch Dancing in Jaffa Online Free 2014 Movie #Download Watch Dancing in Jaffa Online Free Streaming Putlocker Megashare Viooz HD: Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together. Digging into the history of this documentary, we found an intriguing perspective from director Hilla Medalia, who was initially hesitant about making the project because of perceived impossibility of creating lasting change in Israel. Medalia herself had to be pulled into Pierre’s program, teaching methods, and spirit. Also, any project that brings together Morgan Spurlock and La Toya Jackson as executive producers ought to raise anyone’s curiosity factor.


Hilla Medalia is an award-winning 36-year-old Israeli documentary filmmaker whose 2007 To Die in Jerusalem brought together in dialogue (by satellite) the mothers of two teenage girls paired on a ‘Newsweek’ cover, a Palestinian suicide bomber and an Israeli girl killed by her bomb. Her new film is about a less grim effort by famous ballroom teacher Pierre Dulaine to bring Jewissh and Palestinian kids together on the dance floor, and we see some little friendships and personalities bloom in his modest “peace process.” Jaffa, once a Palestinian town, is now a poor, mixed suburb of Tel Aviv. The intense 2009 joint Israeli- Arab feature film ‘Ajami’ focused on a rough part of Jaffa. In ‘Dancing in Jaffa,’ Hilla Medalia follows Pierre Dulaine as he goes back to Jaffa, where he was born in 1944, son of an Irish father and Palestinian mother. (In the film he never mentions that his mother was also half French, which explains “Pierre.”) He has not been back since his family was driven out when he was a child. He comes to introduce to Palestinian-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli, and mixed schools in Jaffa his Dancing Classrooms, a social development program for fifth- graders that uses ballroom dancing “as a vehicle to change the lives of the children and their families” (Wikipedia). This time the primary “change” is the somewhat radical one of pairing Jewish and Arab girls and boys as dance partners.

The film shows other things, like Dulaine approaching his family’s original residence and beating a hasty retreat when the current occupants are not just unfriendly but apparently downright hostile. Dulaine mostly speaks English, but he also speaks Arabic to the kids who understand Arabic. For Hebrew, he has an interpreter or the teachers translate for him. The schools he visits are Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Jewish, and mixed Palestinian-Jewish. There are seven different dances in the lessons and final contest, though merengue and rumba seem to predominate.